An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline , such as a small arm , cove , bay , sound , fjord , lagoon or marsh , that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake , estuary , gulf or marginal sea .
6-636: Port San Juan is an inlet along the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia , Canada. It was formed from the San Juan and Leech River faults which flank the northern and southern slopes of the San Juan Valley . The San Juan and Gordon rivers empty into the inlet from the northeast. The town of Port Renfrew is located on the southern shore of Port San Juan, near
12-404: Is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals , e.g., Portland Canal , Lynn Canal , Hood Canal , and some are channels, e.g., Dean Channel and Douglas Channel . Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that influence sediment flux in inlets. On low slope sandy coastlines, inlets often separate barrier islands and can form as
18-638: The San Juan River and tried to recover the gold. The Nitinat Natives defeated the Spanish expedition. Two Spanish women were taken as slaves. The women were later released to another Spanish expedition who discovered them. The later expedition inadvertently infected the Nitinat Natives with smallpox. There is some evidence to support this story. Spanish ships such as the Santiago investigated
24-401: The open ocean and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past glaciation is a fjord , typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds , e.g., Puget Sound , Howe Sound , Karmsund ( sund
30-693: The outlet of the San Juan River. The inlet can be accessed from Victoria via Highway 14 , from Lake Cowichan via the Pacific Marine Circle Road, or by boat from the Strait of Juan de Fuca . The First Nations of Vancouver Island have a legend of a Spanish trading schooner which arrived on the Island's southwestern coast in 1777. The Spanish anchored in the harbour and traded with the Nitinat Natives. The Spanish discovered gold in
36-474: The west coast in the 1700s. There are also records of attacks on Spanish by First Nations. This is the first alleged discovery of gold in the San Juan River. This article about a location on the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inlet In marine geography , the term "inlet" usually refers to either the actual channel between an enclosed bay and
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